Darn
Find out about security camcorders. Lots of crooks on “Caught on Camera”.
Go to youtube and look up:
NelBNtNm8l0
Trust me.
And might somebody teach me a cooler method to do this? PM me.
I’m still trying to work out the logic that takes you from gloves on the trees to “Let’s buy a gun.” Seems…nonsensical.
Adding that there are teenaged boys and a girl in close proximity clinches it as a prank.
I’m not even an idiotic teen anymore and I’m only dissuaded from suggesting that my wife staple surgical gloves (on sale at Harbor Freight Tools!) to her cousin’s tree because she’d do it and she can be tried as an adult. She once left stale deviled eggs on her cousin’s driveway. Another time she had a “put it in water and watch it grow” alien that looked like a misshapen fetus, so she added some red food coloring to the water and left the jar on the sidewalk in front of a church that had a display of white crosses symbolizing the number of children aborted each day.
Yep, I’m perfectly open to criticism that I’m overreacting. These responses are definitely helping me feel less violated and gun-happy. It’s such a bizarre thing and my subjectivity makes it hard for me to see it as a simple prank–when I start trying to see it that way, I start thinking about what the idiot was thinking while doing it, and the idiot slinking along the side of my house, down right next to my daughter’s window. Deciding what trees. Taking the time to knot and double-knot. Maybe I’m old enough to where I can’t process that this may be what passes for a prank today. I don’t want the brain that decided this was fun or a good idea–then actually executed it–in proximity to my family.
The yard is fenced all around and on the way to nowhere. I wish I could pin it on that, but you’d really have to go out of your way to put the gloves there. That’s what makes it feel personal vice a simple target of opportunity.
That pretty much sums up how I feel.
Get yourself a motion activated deer/wildlife camera.
Even if it’s a kid prank, you want to know who and why, right?
You have a teenage daughter. Your teenage daughter has teenage friends. Teenagers, as I’m sure you know, are twits.
Quite likely they wanted to do something mind-boggling but not destructive. In high school, my friends would occasionally go out and “potato” people’s lawns – just buy a bag of potatoes at the grocery store and heave them out the car windows into the middle of someone’s front yard as they drove past. The gloves strike me as the same idea: Puzzling, hilariously weird to whoever thought it up, but not disturbing your sleep and causing no actual damage to your property.
I second ducati’s suggestion of a camera. I certainly understand wanting to know who, just so you can be sure it’s just the idiots across the street, and the camera would accomplish that handily.
Oh. Not sure if you have much of a case against brats without No Trespassing Signs.
Semper Fi!
You know “Scary Movie” is fiction, right?
Killers and thieves don’t tie gloves to trees. It’s some sort of prank or other silliness. Why on earth would someone who had any criminal plans go through this sort of nonsense?
My prediction is: 98% chance it has something to do with the known relevant factors namely teenage daughters and teenage boys across the street. 2% chance it is random youngsters you don’t know about.
LOL. Beanbags. That might work if the bad guy has a Nerf gun or suction-cup darts. If he has actual bullets, though, you’re screwed. LOL. City people.
P.S. It’s the teenage boys. Things like that are considered flirting for teenagers.
Actually bean bag rounds can be fatal. I sure as shit wouldn’t want to get hit by one. Here’s the wiki link:
If you google people getting hit by beanbag rounds, you will see distinct non-Nerf reactions. Note: I’m not saying they are ideal rounds for home defense, just they are definitely not non-lethal and definitely not a toy.
I bet the teens did it. They probably thought it would be funny, and when the police got involved they probably decided they better not admit it to avoid getting into trouble.
I sure as shit don’t want to get pinched with pliers, either. But using pliers or bean bags to defend your life and the lives of your family members, when there are far better tools available, is just dumb.
I’ll let you have the last word after this but lemme just say:
1- We don’t disagree about the use of beanbag rounds for home defense. I don’t think it’s a good idea either.
2- I think you are dramatically understating the danger of beanbag rounds. Getting pinched with pliers is a terrible comparison. That causes a boo-boo. Getting shot with a beanbag, particularly at the distances typical in a home setting, is more than likely going to cause serious harm. It might even cause death.
Point taken, but still, why? Why in the world would you use beanbags if you perceived a threat to your life?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q30OOWu0Y2E
You know what I’d do if somebody shot me with a beanbag? Say “ow” then shoot him back with real rounds.
Beanbags: make a funny YouTube video.
Double-aught buck: stop/die
I can’t imagine. We totally agree on this. Defend or don’t defend. There is no middle way for me.
I just wanted to point out how dangerous these are because the OP says he wants to use them because he doesn’t want a gun with regular ammo in the house. I think a lot of people are under the impression these are happy safe rainbow rounds when the reality is they are dangerous. And, if shit really craters and they are used against you or discharged inadvertently, they are likely to cause serious harm even death.
Hope your living room is as long as that range. How far do you think that was?
Has one of the adults from your house gone to speak to one of the adults in the teen boy household, asked if anyone has seen anyone hanging around or anything unusual? I would mention to them how unsettled you feel because of the burglaries and all, and how you’d feel fine about it if you knew it was just a prank but the fear that it was someone with nefarious intentions has you on edge.